🎶I’m going to keep on posting at the French racist club🎶

"When Kevin Hartz’s security system failed to alert him as an intruder rang his doorbell and tried to enter his San Francisco home late one night" Bro. Stupid vice-signaling name aside... This company was founded because dude forgot he ordered DoorDash and he decided it was someone else's fault.

You know what, I’m feeling marginally less flippant about this insanity now that I know I’m on a list in a dossier prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs as a “key influencer” of antisemitism. This is munted.

Sauron: securing your home (but not from Hobbits)

La Femme du Raciste... *blows huge cloud of cig smoke* ... est morte

Racist cat lady dies

AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT: ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!! Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text. Translators translate, of course. But!

evergreen

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

As Tressie McMillan Cottom said recently about GenAI, nothing is inevitable, in getting academics to think GenAI is inevitable we work to make it so.

How some of you sound this morning lol

Racist French lady dies at 91. More news at 12.

I can safely say that the @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices podcast will not be pivoting to video.

Once the knobs have been brought back, can we also have the return of manual lift-up handbrakes, and yellow-bulb headlights.

It is not lost on me that most of the Kool-AId boosters are white dudes, who have found a way (another way) to mask their mediocrity. Explicit racism and sexism is (somewhat) not OK anymore, but now there’s this shortcut machine that sells you smart person status without you having to do the work.

When you think GenAI is Socrates rather than a fancier and fawning version of autocorrect.

One fully working squeak available for dog toy organ donation…

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

You’d never know Colonel Tom Parker was Dutch from Tom Hanks’ accent in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis… I don’t know what accent Hanks is going for here but it sure as hell isn’t someone from Breda. If a Dutch accent is so hard to do why not get an actual Dutch actor rather than whatever Hanks is doing here?

It was always a racist policing operation and a fascist Trojan horse. That’s why the slogan amongst the actual smart people has always been “Abolish ICE”.

“Another paradox lies at the heart of humanitarianism. Defined by the principle that all lives hold equal value, then crises affecting small populations should command the same moral urgency as those affecting millions. 🧵

Yeah, brilliant idea to grant the franchise to infinitely replicable digital entities controlled by cadres of tech executives. Muskbrained.

Here we seem to have a literal construction of expertise for political purposes.

I feel ancient… trying to connect the two TV’s at my mum’s to her new WiFi router so she can access Netflix, and well, I can connect them to the WiFi but then Netflix says there is no connection…

Well who doesn’t enjoy a Christmas Day* in A&E. *at least it means there’s free parking!

Art not made by humans is not art and you cannot convince me otherwise. Art requires human vision, skill and, labour, and no you cannot convince me that writing prompts counts, that’s like calling the IKEA assembly manual author an artist.

Capitalism, always more efficient eh?

Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed. The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message. We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.

The US is pulling a Germany when it comes to Palestinians and their supporters wanting to talk about occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

Obviously this is a bad move from the US, but Europeans, can we not pretend to be all *shocked Pikachu face* when EU countries have been, for example, banning UK citizens from travelling to the EU for the crime of being Palestinian and talking about genocide. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

europeans: *routinely let thousands of people die trying to cross EU borders, fund torture camps for migrants, participate in opaque global security infrastructures that often arbitrarily ban individuals from travelling* usa: *bans five (5) europeans from travelling* europeans: 😮

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

The AI pushers who take this approach just sound like abusers to be honest.

This is just to say I have released the Pandora that was in the box and which you were probably saving for a tortured metaphor Forgive me she was delicious so sweet and so cold

“Hand crafted”

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

every single “masculinity” influencer should be required to get in the ring against a professional boxer once they hit 500 subscribers

This happens to me a lot. I do a lot of peer review and editorial work and the number of times I see my own work cited and think, actually no that’s not what that article was arguing.

Can you manually take over one of these things and drive it yourself? Because if you’re a passenger in one and it just brain farts because the traffic lights stop working what are you supposed to do just sit there?

At the airport and 4 dudes have just walked into me, well actually one of them full-on body slammed me at a run, and I might be a short middle aged woman but I am not in fact invisible and nor do I move like a cockroach in unpredictable ways.

Greta Thunberg sends her regards

Become ungovernable www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm sorry, but 'yer da shouts at hotels' is the best sticker ever made

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

amazing photo on spanish wikipedia's chinchilla article

I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.

If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.